Maybe I should retire completely once this hobby list is done, the Raven found himself thinking. It’s not like I need the money. He’d considered it before, never seriously. But he found as he mulled it over that the idea held more and more appeal. Besides, best to leave a game while you’re winning it. That much was true. He’d had an amazingly long run of very successful missions as a professional assassin, with zero threat so far of being caught. But he also knew that one day, someday, his luck would turn. Eventually, every mountain was replaced with a valley. It was just a question of when. A Kenny Rogers song his old man used to play continually crept into his head...What was it called? Oh, yeah, he remembered, chuckling. “The Gambler”. Fitting.
He’d begun to think about walking away fr
